Hello,

Maybe one way could be to mimic this publishers look as much as possible, 
supposing that’s OK for them… 

I did that once for a very small company : for our own performance needs, I had 
already typeset the score we were to play from their original, handwritten by 
the composer, in the first place.

JM

> Le 26 août 2022 à 08:59, Andrew Bernard <[email protected]> a écrit :
> 
> I have no idea what software Schott Music Group uses for engraving, but it's 
> disappointing nowadays that many of the larger publisher are demanding that 
> composers do their work for them and requesting finished work, at least 
> finished to the point they can apply their house style. I don't think any of 
> the big names use Lilypond, and as far as I recall various efforts to get 
> Lilypond to export MusicXML (with all its limitations)  have not come to any 
> fruition. Unless they accept a PDF from you and print that or reset from 
> scratch I think you are stuck. Sorry. I think the silence on the list re your 
> question is also confirmation that there is not an answer to this. I may be 
> wrong!
> 
> Andrew
> 
> 
> On 25/08/2022 10:43 pm, [email protected] wrote:
>> I proposed to send them my LilyPond files but I have been confirmed yesterday
>> that they cannot process those... They told me an XML file might help them
>> though. I looked if it was possible to export in XML but I read the result 
>> was
>> bad and LilyPond wasn't made for that task... So here's my question: what 
>> would
>> you suggest I could do to export my scores and help them prepare the album?
>> 
>> Thanks for the advices!
>> 
> 


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